video card driver necessary?
Claude Jones
claude_jones at levitjames.com
Wed Jul 11 01:38:24 UTC 2007
On Tuesday July 10 2007 1:47:56 pm Robin Laing wrote:
> My daughter can lock up my Nvidia based destop almost at will. Xorg is
> using all the processing power and if I ssh into the machine and kill
> it, then all is well.
>
> Keyboard response is gone, so no other terminal can be opened locally.
> I am going to try to debug this but it never happened before putting in
> the Nvidia driver from Livna.
Which driver are you running, Robin. There's some discussion over on the
freshrpms list about the latest nvidia driver causing 100% CPU utilization
after some time. The fix is to revert to the previous driver.
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Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD
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